What Techniques Can Help Maintain a Partnership During Periods of Membership and Leadership Change?
All partnerships eventually experience change among participating agencies, leaders, members of councils, and parent groups. Agency directors may move on to other positions, alliances with new agencies may form, or longtime leaders may choose to leave. Within programs, some attrition among parents, committee members, and volunteers is also inevitable (for a discussion of staff turnover, see Chapter 5). Change within your partnership need not be disruptive if your strategies are designed to accommodate it. Successful partnerships use the following techniques to accommodate change: Involve a large number of individuals in leadership. Working by consensus from the inception of a partnership prevents factions from developing among agencies or individuals; shared leadership ensures that many partners understand their organizational history and that the partnership does not depend on any one person or agency. Use structured orientation sessions or mentoring systems to ease new partners into
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